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“I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places,

Human Rights Watch Says 2020 Worst Year For Chinese Rights Movement Since 1989 Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Jan 15, 2021 In its 31st annual global report, Human Rights Watch wrote of China, “This has been the darkest period for human rights in China since the 1989 massacre that ended the Tiananmen Square democracy movement.” The Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s 2020 annual report drew a similar conclusion, noting “unprecedented steps” by Chinese authorities to restrict human rights. The reports covered developments in fields from disability rights to freedom of religion i...

“In the end, this is how you describe us: Banshee, shrew, whore, and hooker Fishwife, bitch, slutty man-eater. Look, this is how you belittle us” These lyrics from Mandopop star Tan Weiwei (Sitar Tan) are powerful in their own right, but they take on a new urgency in a year when China saw several especially brutal cases of violence against women in the national spotlight. Soon before Tan’s song hit the internet, screenwriter and activist Xianzi appeared at a court in Beijing to hold a powerful CCTV host, Zhu Jun, accountable for sexual harassment. Hundreds of Xianzi’s fans gathered...

Some of you have been loving the Royal Smithfield Show remembered stories dredged up from The Raider's dark and distant past. The NFU's Christine Cuthbertson recalled the first time she went down to the show at a student. "It was with a lecturer and fellow students at SAC Auchincruive, circa 1993 – and talk about country comes to town!" she said. "I was perplexed when we went up the escalator in Earl’s Court to come into view with the all the cattle and naively thought that the cattle had taken the escalator up to their stalls as well – much to the hilarity of my student pals!

Lifestyle by Melanie Burgess Premium Content   Australian workers are burning out, reporting lower levels of wellbeing and higher levels of stress than their global counterparts. The trend started well before 2020, but is being exacerbated by COVID-19. Infinite Potential's 2020 Workplace Burnout Study, which surveyed 1700 people across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, finds 49 per cent of Australian respondents report some level of burnout, compared to a global average of 40 per cent. Research author and organisational psychologist Dr John Ch...